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Cluj County

Cluj-Napoca and the salt mine of Turda.

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📷 Țetcu Mircea Rareș · CC BY-SA 3.0 ro · Wikimedia Commons

Cluj County is the heart of Transylvania, with the university city of Cluj-Napoca and the Turda salt mine.

Museums in Cluj County

Look inside, then pay your admission straight to the museum.

The story of Cluj County

Cluj-Napoca is a lively student city with the great Gothic church of St Michael, the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania and its open-air section. In the Turda Salt Mine, deep halls of salt now hold a Ferris wheel and a lake with rowing boats. The Turda Gorge is a favourite walk.

  • 1443Matthias Corvinus is born in Cluj
  • 2015Cluj-Napoca is European Youth Capital

Cluj County through time

The big moments, and where to see them today.

  1. 1922The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania is founded.See it: Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania

What to do in Cluj County

  1. 01

    Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania

    Village life, with an open-air park.

    Cluj-Napoca2 hours
  2. 02

    National Museum of Art Cluj

    Romanian art in the Bánffy Palace.

    Cluj-Napoca1 to 2 hours
  3. 03

    Turda Salt Mine

    Underground halls of salt.

    Turda2 hours
Getting there

Getting to Cluj County

From the airport to the city centre by public transport, then the trains and local lines to the museums.

Arriving by plane

OTP
Bucharest Henri CoandăBucharest · București

Getting around Cluj County

Lines and timetables change. Check the operator’s website before you travel.

On the map

Hidden story

A Ferris wheel underground

An old salt mine became an underground park.

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Salt was cut at Turda for centuries, leaving huge halls more than 100 metres below the surface. After mining stopped, the mine was turned into a park with a Ferris wheel, a mini-golf course and an underground lake where you can row a boat between salt walls.